Effective implementation of payments in a mobile app requires precise attention to factors such as payment methods, the user experience, and fraud prevention.
Category Archives: engineering
How to Run Apache Airflow on Kubernetes at Scale
As an orchestration engine, Apache Airflow let us quickly build pipelines in our data infrastructure.
The 4 Principles DoorDash Used to Increase Its Logistics Experiment Capacity by 1000%
In our real-time delivery logistics system, the environment, behavior of Dashers (our term for delivery drivers), and consumer demand are highly volatile.
Separating User Data with Multi-tenancy To Improve User Management
As DoorDash expanded and grew its product lines, we needed to find a better way to manage user data.
Using Triplet Loss and Siamese Neural Networks to Train Catalog Item Embeddings
Understanding the contents of a large digital catalog is a significant challenge for online businesses, but this challenge can be addressed using self-supervised neural network models.
Increasing Operational Efficiency with Scalable Forecasting
Forecasting is essential for planning and operations at any business — especially those where success is heavily indexed on operational efficiency.
Improving Development Velocity with Generic, Server-Driven UI Components
In our previous article, Using Display Modules to Enable Rapid Experimentation on DoorDash’s Homepage, we discussed the concept of Display Modules, and how we built them to speed up development and implement a more flexible experimentation paradigm.
Using ML and Optimization to Solve DoorDash’s Dispatch Problem
DoorDash delivers millions of orders every day with the help of DeepRed, the system at the center of our last-mile logistics platform.
Predicting Marketing Performance from Early Attribution Indicators
DoorDash uses machine learning to determine where best to spend its advertising dollars, but a rapidly changing market combined with frequent delays in data collection hampered our optimization efforts.
6 Principles for Building a World Class TPM Team
Given the variability in the Technical Program Manager (TPM) role, it can be hard to know if a new opportunity will grow your career massively or fall short of your expectations.